Time 100 Makes Room Once Again for Kim Jong-un
Flanked this year by James Comey and Rance Preibus
The person with the second-most Time “100 Most Influential People” appearances on this year’s list is North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. Only Chinese president Xi Jinping, appearing in 2017 for the eighth time, is ahead of the 33-year-old DPRK scion, who is included for a seventh time.
Jong-un is also arguably the Time 100 2017 honoree whose latest accomplishments are the most Shakespearean. From the write-up by former U.S. Ambassador to South Korea Christopher Hill:
He is widely believed to have ordered the recent murder of his half-brother Kim Jong-nam with a VX nerve agent in the Kuala Lumpur airport.
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